SH-SHAAARK! JAWS forty years after its big splash...

 

Spielberg's second feature came out forty years ago this summer.  JAWS introduced the concept of Boffo Summer Box Office -- and you can see it again on the big screen!  June 21st and 24th, TCM is screening the film in movie theaters around the country.  Check if your city is one of the lucky ones! 

 

The above is a decades-old photo of a billboard a friend and I reworked to honor the film...

LITTLE KNOWN FACTS #46

HANNIBAL SEASON THREE PREMIERES JUNE 4th

 

The entire season three staff wishes you a happy season three viewing, June 4th on NBC -- check your local listings...

IN HONOR OF GAME OF THRONES, SEASON V, EPISODE TWO...

...Which airs tonight, I offer this old sketch I came across.

GARY v DEMON

 

A storyboard panel I did for a WEIRD SCIENCE episode back in the day

'EMPIRE' IS HOT, BUT DAVID CASSIDY WAS HOTTER...

ASSORTED DOODLES

From top to bottom: 1) Back in my Minnesota script group, often people reading their script pages aloud would describe a contemplative character's action as "kneading their forehead..." I drew a pic of what came to my mind, 2) an easily impressed earthworm and 3) An amalgamated marriage -- I had drawn the telephone-antlered moose and on the same page I'd drawn the cranky old man and, seeing their juxtaposition, I completed the doodle so that the little animal was peering over the fellow's head -- his pet, or his muse... or a parasite.

WHERE THUNDER COMES FROM...

Death's Head Script Cover

Years ago Scott Nimerfro and I came up with an idea for a feature -- what happened to Ebenezener Scrooge AFTER his visit from 3 ghosts?  Anyway, the title, for about 5 seconds, was taken from the last chapter title in A CHRISTMAS CAROL -- 'The End of It',  Naturally, I felt compelled to draw art for the script cover (a no-no in scriptwriting).  Clearer heads prevailed and we later changed the name -- but the artwork survives...

THE GANGSTER

Drew this while at The Minnesota Daily.  What's funny is it predates Stevie Van Zandt on the SOPRANOS, who looked pretty much exactly like this.  What May Day had to do with it, I dunno...

ABSTRACT, DOG

Two drawings for an art class in high school.  A "realistic" dog and its discombobulated abstract counterpart.